School: Maio (roll number 13119)
- Location:
- Trohanny, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máire Ní Chreaig
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0706, Page 470
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- (continued from previous page)The buachaláins grow in land where sheep are not grazing, because sheep eat the roots.
Pruiseach grows in oats or wheat and are pulled in the month of June, before the corn is cut.
Nettles grow on the best of land. They have to be pulled to get rid of them. When a person touches them they give a very bad sting. The people say,"When you take a nettle gently, it will sting you for your pains
Grasp it like a lad of mettle, and it soft as silk, remains."Scutch growns on marshly land, and it is very harmful. The land cannot be cut where it is growing.
Shamrocks and clover grow in good land. Both have three leaves, and it is very hard to make a distinction between them. The only difference that is between them is, that the clover has white spots on its leaves, and the shamrocks have none.
Rushes grow on very bad land. In order to get rid of them they have to be cut.
- Collector
- Kathleen Carolan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Druminiskin, Co. Meath
